Winterwood A Novel

by McCabe, Patrick

• ISBN13: 9781596915138
• ISBN10: 1596915137
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-22
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

"A fever dream of a novel...At heart,Winterwoodis a Gothic ghost story...like Stephen King, McCabe knows how to invest pop culture with a sinister bathos. McCabe is also more intense than King (or just about anyone else)."New York Times Book ReviewTheSan Francisco Chronicledeclared him "one of the most brilliant writers to ever come out of Ireland," and Neil Jordan calledWinterwood"the most terrifying book I've ever read." In this chilling and unforgettable novel, Patrick McCabe shows us that nothingand no oneis ever quite what they seem. Shortlisted for the Irish Book Award for Novel of the Year,Winterwoodis a disturbing tale of love, death, and identity from a masterful novelist whose "books are skillful exercises in the macabre and the horrific. It is as though Stephen King had learned how to write" (New York Review of Books).

Author Biography

Patrick McCabe was born in Ireland in 1955. His novels include The Butcher Boy, winner of the Irish Times/Aer Lingus Literature Prize, which was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize and made into a highly acclaimed film directed by Neil Jordan, and Breakfast On Pluto, published in 1998, also on the Booker Prize shortlist. He lives in Sligo with his wife and two daughters.